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UNITED STATES Patented July 14, 1903.

FREDERICK GLIDDEN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

TALLY- BOARD.

sPEcIFIcATIoN forming part or-Leaers Patent 10.733,834, dated July 14,1903. Application iled January 17, 1903. Serial No. 139,456. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. GLID- DEN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State ofOhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tally-Boards;and I do declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains `to make and use the same.

My invention relates to tally-boards for keeping a visible record oforders by traveling salesmen and for other purposes; and the inventionconsists in the construction of the board and in the combination andarrangement of parts, substantially as shown and described, andparticularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a front elevation of one formor combination of a complete tally-board embodying my invention; andFig. 2 is a vertical sectional lelevation thereof on line was, Fig. 1.Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view on line z e, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of one of the tally pegs or Stoppers, and Fig. 5 is asectional elevation thereof. Fig. 6 is an elevation of a modification ofthe combination and arrangement of parts as compared with Fig. l and ashereinafter more fully described. Fig. 7 is an enlarged cross-section ofthe record-board proper, broken out in its middle portion, and of borderor joining pieces separated therefrom in this view and also asection ofa pocketboard, as hereinafter fully described.

The invention thus shown may be applied to various uses, as alreadyindicated; but the particular use which I have in mind in thisdescription and to which I find the invention admirably adapted is thekeeping of a visible and comparative record of the number of oramonth,and it is divided horizontally into lother subdivisions by lines4, corresponding to the number of salesmen, of whom account is to bekept on the board, and with a side column fortheir names,and largerandsmaller boards may be used, according to the number of salesmen, up to aconvenient size. In the angles of said lines2 and 4 or between them Iprovide perforations or holes 5, adapted to receive plugs or Stoppers C,and these perforations or holes 5 preferably do not go endtirely throughthe board, but they may, if desired, and they may have any convenientshape in cross-section. In this instancethey are cylindrical, while theplugs have taperedv and preferably cork bodies 6 and metallic or otherheads 7, furnished with numbers running 1, 2, 3, and upward and of suchsize as to plainly display the figures on each head. The said headsare-preferably enameled, and cork Vor other like yielding bodies areadapted to hold the plugs in place; but I have also foundthat a board ofthis kind is practicallyincomplete unless it beincorporated with certainaccessories, enabling one to make various com binations as a busioneside or at the'bottom or top of the original board, as may be found mostconvenient in any given place. Then, again, I make the structu re acomposite one, in that each recordboard is equipped with a pocket-boardE for the plugs. These latter boards have pockets 8 in series, numberedfrom 1, 2, 3, upward to as high a number as may be needed to note theaccumulating orders of any salesman, and each pocket is marked on itsface.

by a number corresponding to the number or figure on the plugs therein.

In Fig. l board E is shown as attached to the bottom of board B, andboth boards are TOO ient, and in Fig. 6 it is also at the side ot' boardB.

To connect the boards, I preferably employ dovetailed edges and joiningmembers H, because of theirconvenience. and adaptation to my use; butany other equivalent joint which will serve the purpose maybesubstituted. These joint members or pieces are constructed along bothsides for dovetailed connections. Then as a border or edging for saidboards apart from their jointure with another part and to finish thesame I provide border-pieces II', dovetailed along one edge or side andadapted to be removably engaged on said boards and to cover edges nototherwise occupied. These latter borders harmonize the structure and mayrun across the joints between the boards or stop with each board.

One board may have another board directly attached thereto or by theintervening or joining strips H, as may be found preferable.

In means for keeping certain office records, a uniformly-perforatedboard subdivided vertically into spaces corresponding to the days of amonth and horizontally into spaces corresponding to a series of namespaces, in combination with a separate pocket-board removably joined toone edge of said perforated board and having a series of pocketsnumbered consecutively from l upward, substantially as described.

Witness my hand to the foregoing specification this 30th day ofDecember, 1902.

FREDERICK A. GLIDDEN.

Witnesses:

R. B. MOSER, R. ZBORNIK.

